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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-08-07, Page 7:.�Aea rocele, V C2nspxta col . G.warn,' Tn, 11�Ib'9 Specialists, 15 Downie nS r; Ont.' "' .8; foot LEGAL Phone No. 91 JOHN l<. RUGGARD Barrister, Segca'ter,: Notary PUb1ik, Etc, /cattle Block - - Seaford*, Oat. Be ,1% HATS' Barrister,' Solicitoir, .; . Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. 'Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, ,Seaforth Money to s. BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- tees and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. VETERINARY • JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-. arl• College. All disease of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinaryDentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderioh Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's office, Sea- teeth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated the most modern principles. Bhargea reasonable. Day or night galla promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, 'Hensall, opposite Town Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. E. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Ophthal- Mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Dye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pltsls, London, Eng. At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Monuay in each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. No visit in August. DR. 'W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, 'University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario.. Office In Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., ;Beaforth. Phone 90. DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL Honor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of 'Ontario. Office 2 doors oast of post office. Phone 56, Neilsall, Ontario. 3004-tf DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire- knd. Late Extern Assistant Master Motanda Hospital for Women end Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours: 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m., Bundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 • DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, 'rest of the United Church, Sea- terth Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor' graduate of Trin- tty University, and gold medalist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; "nyal Ophthalmis Hospital, London, ]land; University Hospital, Lon - doh, England. Office -'Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls anis'weired from residence, jfletoria Street, Seaforth. • DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- CChicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal ollege of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St , Seaforth. Phone 151. DR. F. J. BECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Imam* Toronto. Office over W. R. ly•�sGrocery, Main Street, Sea- Verth. Phones: Office, 18b W; resi- dence, 185J. CONSULTING ENGINEER -J.,=irA ,$I ski Joseph C. ` Lincoln CITA'PTER I A dark night, ,but a clear one. No clouds, no fog, and the wind but a light south-westerly breeze. Warm, too, for November. The little room In the tower of the .Setuckit Life -Saving Station was chilly, of eouise-a lands- man might have considered it decid- edly cold ---but to Seleucus Gammon, the member of the Setuckit crew on watch in theower, .it was warm, no- ticeably and 'surprisingly so. Seleucus, who had come on duty dressed for the ordinary November temperature, had unbuttoned the heavy jacket which he w re. over his sweater and had hung hii. cap' on the hook on the wall be- side the round, brass ship's clock. The brass of the clock was polished' to a mirror-like glisten. So, too, was the metal of the telescope on its stand in the middle of the room. So, also, was every particle of brass or nickel in that room. There was no light to render these things visible, and no stove or other heating apparatus. Heat within and cold without meant frost -covered' "window -panes and con- sequently difficulty in looking through and ' from those windows, in keeping watch up and down the beaches and over the stretches of sea and shoal. In many stations at this period it was not customary to keep a man on watch in the tower at night; the re- gulations did not require it and the matter was left to the discretion of the keeper. At Setuckit, however, night watch in the tower was a part of the regular routine; at least, since Captain Oswald Myrick had been in charge there. Seleucus strolled slowly about the glass -enclosed room, stopping to peer from each window in turn. He was a huge, 'bulky man, with a salt -sea roll in his walk, and as he lumbered from window to window in the dark- ness, a seeker for comparisons might have been reminded. of a walrus wal- lowing about in an undersized tank. A bald head and a tremendous sweep of shaggy moustache were distinct aids to the walrus suggestion. The views from each window were made up solely of blackness, spotted with fiery points. To Seleucus, how- ever, the blackness was underlaid with the familiarity of long acquaintance, and every pin -prick of fire a punctua- tion on a page he knew by heart. For example, to the east, ten miles away, the steady white spark was the Or - ham lighthouse shining out from the high sand bluffs fronting the Atlan- tic. Far out, and more to the south, another brilliant point marked the position of the lightship at Sand Hill Shoal, and still farther to the south- east and fainter, because of distance, were the lanterns of the Broad Rip lightship. Swinging to the south he noted two more lightships, those marking respectively the edges of the Tarpaulin and Hog's Back, smaller shoals but quite as dangerous as their bigger broth'rs. To the west was still another, that moored by Mid - channel Shoal, and still farther to the south-east and fainter, because of distance, were the lanterns of the Broad Rip lightship. Swinging to the south he noted two more light- ships, those marking respectively the edges of the Harpaulin and Hog's Back, smaller shoal's but quite as dan- gerous as their bigger brothers. To the west was still another, that moor- ed by Midchannel Shoal, and, eight miles beyond on Crow Ledge, unique because, like the house in the Scrip- tural story, it was founded upon a rock, and rocks are distinct novelties along the Cape Cod coast. On this night -or morning, for it was almost that -and visible because of the unwonted clearness of the at- mosphere, one more spark pricked the southern horizon, the light at Long Point, on Nonscusset Island. Between these were scattered others, much less brilliant, and these the watcher knew to be the lights of ves- sels -schooners for the most part - taking advantage of the fair weather to make safe passage between ports south of "Down East." From the tower of the Setuckit Life -Saving Station in the later years of the nine- teenth century -the years before the United States Life -Saving Service was taken over by the Naval Department and rechristened the Coast Guard, be- fore the era of wireless stations and the Cape Cod Canal -on a cl` r night from Setuckit tower one mit count no less than six lighthouses and six lightships, not including that of Set- uckit lighthouse itself, which reared its blazing head two miles up the beach, and was, therefore, a next- door neighbor. A beautiful coast in summer; in winter a wicked, cruel coast, where, so the records show, there were more wrecks during a period of fifty years than at any 'other spot, except one, from Key West to Eastport, Maine. These matters, statistical and pic- turesque, were not, of course, in the thoughts of Mr. Gammon as he stood, hands in pockets, gazing through the tower window facing west. His men- tal' speculations were engaged with matters much more personal and in- timate. The little ship's clock on the wall had just struck twice, therefore it would soon be daybreak, and, later, sunrise when his watch would end. He knew also that, down below, in the kitchen of the station, Ellis Bad- ger, who happened to be cook that week, was preparing breakfast. Breakfast, the first meal of the four in the station routine of those days, was served before daylight. Dinner was at eleven, supper at four, and there was an, extra meal about eight in the evening. S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc., (Tor.), O.'L.S., Registered Professional En - and Lend Surveyor. Associate her Engineering Institute of Can- eds.'. Office, Seaforth, Ontario. • AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the co inities et Huron and Perth. arrangements forsale dates Correspondence can be made by calling The Exposit i,r Office Seaforth. Charges moderate, a n d satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 302. .,en,;, 9 dropped the kitchen cake of soap in- to the bean pot on a Saturday of the previous winter. The comments of iris comrade were expressed with feeling. "You ain't mad, be you, Seleucus?" queried Mr. 'Badger solicitously. Gam- mon's reply was non -committal. "I don't know's I'm so Thad that they'll have to shoot me, Ellis," he observed. '"I ain't bit nobody yet. But I am beginnin' to show signs - I'm frothin' at the mouth." It was he, also, who suggested that the soap be put into the Bodger cof- fee. "So's it'll be strong enough to wash with," he explained, referring to the coffee. His anticipations concerning break- fast were not therefore, -entirely free from misgiving, but forty-nine years of a life spent amid storms-- meteorological torms✓meteorological always and matrimon- ial for the latter half -had endowed Seleucus with a sort of amphibious philosophy, and made him more or less weatherproof. The most savage north -easter blew itself out eventual- ly, and Mrs. Gammon her Christian name was Jemina--stopped' talking if one had sufficient fortitude to en- dure to the end. The sane procedure during both trials was patiently to wait for that end, and think of some- ing else while waiting. So, true to his code, and reflecting that, after all, a poor breakfast was better than no breakfast, Mr. Gammon shifted his thought, also his pbsition, and, walking to the eastern window, looked out from that. As he stood there the eastern horizon turned from black to grey, the low -hanging stars above it began to dim; and below him the sand dunes and the cluster of shanties and fish houses of the lit- tle settlement at Setuckit Point slow- ly emerged from the gloom, separated, and assumed individual shape and pro- portions. A step sounded on the stair lead- ing to the tower, the door opened and Calvin Homer entered the little room. Homer was Number One man at' the Setuckit Station; that is, his was, next to Captain Oswald Myrick's, the -position of greatest responsibility and command. On board a ship he would haye ranked as mate and his associ- ates would have added 'a "sir" to their remarks when addressing ,him. On the station records he was "Surfman Number One," but hie comrades call- ed him` Calvin or "Cal," just as they called their commander "Cap'n Oz" or "Ozzie." ,The keeper of a Cape' Cod Life -Saving Station, at that time; had absolute and autocratic control of his crew while the latter were on duty, and the crew recognized and obeyed that authority. But, being in- dependent Yankees, they remained democrats so far as verbal homage to rank and title was concerned. Homer came into the tower room, closing the door behind him. He. was twenty-six, lean, squareeehouldered, smooth -faced, grey -eyed, and sun- burned to a deep brick -red. He had just come up from his cot in the sleeping quarters on the second floor, and was wearing his blue uniform suit, with "NO. I" in white upon the coat sleeves. Gammon noticed the uniform immediately. "Hello, Cal," he drawled. "Up airly, ain't you? And all togged out, too. Practisin' up to show off afore the girls next summer?" Homer smiled. "Next summer is a long way off, Seleucus," he said. "Huh! Maybe 'tis when a feller is as young as you be. I'll be fifty next June and I can smell Mayflowers al- ready. How's Cap'n Ozzie this morn - in'?" "I don't know. His door is shut, so I hope he's asleep, and his wife too. I didn't hear anybody moving as I came by. 'It was a quiet night, so maybe they both slept. I hope so. The cap'n needs all the rest he can get. He starts for home this moor�rn- ing•Utn-hum. I know he does. Peleg Myrick's goin' to take him over, they tell me. Good thing there's a smooth sea. That old craft of Peleg's is as sloppy as a dish pan if there's m:ore'n a hatful of water stirrin'. I went up to Orham along of Peleg my last lib- erty day but one, and-crimustee!-I give you my word I thought I'd be drownded afore we made Baker's beach. I told Peleg so. 'What's the matter with ye?' 'says 'Peleg. 'This boat of mine'll weather anything!' he says; 'and this ain't nothin' but a moderate blow. You won't get over- board this trip.' 'I know it,' I told him, 'and, that's the trouble. When I'm overboard I can cal'late to make out to swim, but aboard here all I can do is set still and wait for the tide to go over my head. That last sea we shipped filled my ileskins full to the waist. Let me take your hand pump so I can see how bad my boots leak.' He, he! Crimus! Peleg nam- ed that boat of his the Wild Duck. I told him he'd ought to named her the loon. 'A loon spends half his time under water,' I says. He, he! . . . Humph! Wonder to me Ozzie didn't have a boss "n' team to come down over the beach to fetch him and his wife. Don't see why he didn't, do you?" Homer shook his bead. "It's a rough road and a long one," lie said. "I guess his wife thought it would be easier for a sick man to travel to West Herniss by water. And it's 'almost a flat calm just now." "Jest now? Do you mean 'tain't likely to last?" "I'm afraid not -all day. The glass has fallen a good deal since ten o'clock and it's still going down. . . . Well has anything happened since you came on watch?" OSCAR K4OPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auctioneering, Chi- cago, Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mar- ebandise and Farm Sales. ' Rates in keeping with prevailing market. Sat• isfaction assured.'Zurich, Write or WirePhoma: Oscar K1opp,288o_e: 18-98. R. T. LUKER Licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended o in all peribof the comity. Belrekk_years' ex- nce in Manitoba add Tempa ramble. 1� No. 1'f8 r il, Lr, Jtee, Ceiatral3s P.O.,, No. L O left at The MOM Es - Moe, 'Seaforth, promptly at - to. 'Uardly. I put the 'unform on to please the skipper, $e told me he wished I would. ,,mid it would make him feel a little mere as if he wax leaving somebody in command here When he quit. +I e'e pretty blue at: going, -but I tell him he'll be back here as well as ever in a fortnight or so." Mr. Gammon shook his head, sigh- ed, and reached into his pocket •for his chewing tobacco. "That's what you told him, was it?" he observed. "Humph! Ain't you ever been to prayer-meetin'?" "I guess I have. What's that got to do with it?" Seleucus inserted the plug of to- bacco between his teeth and bit and tugged until he separated a -section, which he tucked into his cheek. "I used to go to Methodist vestry meetin' myself about thirty years ago or such a matter," he observed. "I went to meetin' Friday nights pretty reg'Iar. I was always the churchy kind. You see, there was a girl that -well, never mind that part. But at them meetin's, time and again, Ive heard your geeat-uncle, Zebedee Ry- der, him that kept grocery store, rant and rave about the sin of lyin'. He wouldn't tell a lie for nothin', your Uncle Zeb wouldn't. Used to make his brags about it right out loud." "Well, it was something to brag about -if it was true." "Oh, I guess likely 'twas true en- ough. Nigh as I ever heard Zeb Ryder wouldn't tell a lie -for nothin'. If there was five cents to be got a holt of, then things might be differ- ent. . . But, anyhow, what I'm tryin' to say is that I can't under- stand how you, one of Uncle Ze'b's own-er-ancestors, can sit in the skipper's room down below there and tell Ozzie that he'll be back here in a fortni't. You know plaguy well he'll ,never come back." The younger man did not answer immediately. When he did he said, "I surely hope he will." "So do I -in one way. In another,, I don't. Oz Myrick has been life -say - in' for twenty -odd year. He was one of the first surfmen on one of the fust reg'lar crews ever set patrollin' a Cape Cod beach. Afore that he was fishin' on the Banks, and swabbin' decks aboard a square rigger when he wa'n't more'n a kid. He's pretty nigh as much of a veteran as Super- intendent Kellogg, down to Province - town. It's time he give up and took a rest. Yes, and his check is about ready to be handed in for keeps. He's sick and itis the kind of sickness folks his age don't get over." 'Homer nodded. "He knows it," he said, briefly. "Course he knows it, Cap'n Oz ain't anybody's fool. Told you he was cal'latin' to try and have you appoint- ed keeper in his place, didn't he?" Homer looked at him sharply. "What makes you say that?" he demanded. "'Cause he told me he' was eal'- latin' to. Good notion too.' His companion shook his head. "I'm not so sure that the notion is good," he said. "There are at least five men here, and one of 'em is yourself who have been in the service longer than 'I have." "Humph! I cal'late you could find plenty of fellers up to Charlestown jail that have been in there long enough, but 'twouldn't be one of them that would be picked out for warden. It takes more'n a kag of salt mackerel on legs to handle this job down here. It takes a man - with brains. We've got a good crew, there's no doubt about that." "You bet there isn't!" "I shouldn't take no such bet. They are all right, for this Setuckit crew. But what are they? Why, the heft of 'em are fellers like me, that have been in and on and around salt wa- ter so long the pickle drips off 'em when they walk. They ain't scared of nothin'. I giye in to that, but that ain't because they don't know enough to be. They're too stubborn to let anything scare 'em, that's why. But they're as independent and cranky as a parcel of washtubs afloat. A man they know and have confidence in, he can handle 'em. But you let somebody try it that ain't that kind and then see. Would I take the. job of keeper down here? I, nor Hez Rogers, nor Ed. Bloomer, nor Sam Bearse, nor any of 'em? You bet we wouldn't!" "Why not?" "'Cause we've got sense enough to realize the kind of sense we ain't got. A good fo'mast hand don't necessary make a good skipper. Takes more'n rubber muscles and codline hair, that does. Takes brains, I tell you. You've got brains, Cal, along with nerve and the rest of it. You can handle a schooner in a shoal, or a surfman that's been on liberty, and has come back full of pepper tea, and do it judgmatically. When you get through the wreck's afloat, if she's floatable and the man's rady and R+iilin' to go to work again. Amiss -all hands are satisfied the right thing's been done This crew here -the heft of 'em would row you to hell 'ever bilin' wa- ter if you give the word' to launch They've seen you go there and back again more'n once since Oap'n Oz was too sick. They'd be glad to have you for skipper. And Ozzie wants you ea be, and so does District Super- intendent Kellog, for the matter, of that. There's only one man I know that hadn't ought to want it." Seleucus thought of breakfast, and his always present and enthusiastic appetite hailed the thought joyfully. Then he remembered the sort of cook Badger yeas and the joy was chilled with a dash of foreboding. It was Ellis Badger who had accidentally 37 Wen, 1 00 i 'red ane. ,eal#s t , lave hada :good 0b aslio ter, :,Seleueus -lip -o at east'i.110 •tl►at was aii'erud u. 4Q. yo stay here?" IsPaPelnen grinned. ` cCalise I 'Alla,, born a darn foil, •and ain't .growed.nut Of the habit, I' esylate,'7. „ e eeid,, swear off every fail' and vow' m through life -ea -1W. Then I turn, to and swear on again. There's soine- thin' about this -this crazy job that gets a feller, same as ruin. I like it." Homer nodded. "I know," he said, "Arid it's the same way with me. I like it -and I can't give it up -yet. I went into the service just as a time - filler four years ago. I had been at home up in the village for three months with mother; she was sick, and T had to be there. Then she died and ---well, there was nothing else in the way of work in sight, and here was sixty-five a month, and a good deal of fun. I meant to stay six months, perhaps. I'm here yet." "Yes, so you be. But you don't have to stay here, twelve miles from nowhere, do you?" "No -o. But -well, I seem to be married to the job." Seleueus shivered. "Boy," he said solemnly, "don't talk that way at your age. If you was married you'd have an excuse for the twelve miles -yes, or fifty, . . . There, there! Let's talk about somethin' cheerful. There was a SAde drownded off a schoon- er down along Race Point last week, so Wallie Oaks was tellin' me. He see it in the Boston paper day afore yesterday when he was over to Har- niss." ' a The clock struck three bells and, later, four. The grey streak along the eastern horizon broadened, turn- ed to rose and then crimson. Over the edge of the Atlantic, seen beyond the distant roofs of Orham, rolled the winter sun. Seleucus yawned, stretch- ed and took his cap from the hook. "And that's over," he observed thankfully, referring to his tern on watch. "One more night nigher the graveyard, as my grandmother used to say, by way of brightenin' up breakfast. Well, I don't need no' brightenin' up for my breakfast. And you ain't hnd yours neither, have you? Here's Sam. Cal, let's you and me go down and mug up." Sam Bearse, raw-boned, tanned and moustached, had entered the room, while his fellow-surfman was speak- ing. He grunted a "How be you, Seleucus.? Hello, Cal," and, hanging his cap hip on the hook, prepared to take over the tower watch. Homer and Gammon descended to the kitch- en. Then they "mugged up," that is they ate breakfast together., The other men, .having already brealdast- ed and washed the dishes -each washing his oyvn-were now smoking and skylarking outside the ,station in the sunshine. It being clear weather no one was on beach patrol that morning. Homer finished first, and, leaving his comrade still busy with coffee and doughnutsrose from the table and prepared -Co go out. "I'll attend to my dishes when I come in, Seleyus," he said. "I'm go- ing to look around a minute or two." Seleucus nodded. "Heave ahead," he observed, his mouth 'full. "I'll be clone after a spell. Cal'latin' to have another cup of Ellis's coffee." There was a chill in the air in spite of the sunshine, but to Calvin Homer and his associates the morning was astonishingly mild and balmy. A lit• tle breeze had sprung up and had shifted more towards the north; the beach grass in the hollows between the dunes and on their crests was waving, the water of the bay was blue and sparkling. Over all, as al- ways at Setuckit, sounded the surge and hiss and thunder of the surf along the beach on the ocean side. Hezekiah Rogers, surfman Number Four, hailed Homer as the latter pass- ed. "Wind's breezin' on a little mite, Cal," he said. "And cantin' round more to the no'th. Have you noticed the glass? Fallin', ain't it?" "Yes. It has been falling all night." "I bet you! Never see a day like this, this time of year, but it turned out to be a weather breeder. We'll have one old bird of a no'th-easter by night-time, see if we don't. And I have to turn out on patrol at 12. Godfreys! Who wouldn't sell the farm and' go to sea?" Homer smiled, but did not answer, and, turning the corner of the station walked toward the buildings at its rear. Two cars and' a weather-beat- en terrier, the latter a survivor from a wrecked schooner, came trotting to meet him.\ In a lath enclosure ad- joining the barn, a half-dozen hens and a rooster ' with most of his tail feathers blown or pecked away were scratching -presumably for exercise -at the sand. In the barn itself, the station horses -a pair of sturdy ani- mals, named respectively, "Port" and "Starboard"i-were standing in their stalls. The horses were almost as valuable members of the Setuckit life- saving outfit as the humans. They pulled the boat wagons to the shore, hauled the heavy car bearing the beach apparatus -the latter comprising the Lyle gun, the breeches buoy, the life car, andall their paraphernalia -on the rare occasions when the appar- atus was used, and were respected pampered and better fed than their two -legged comrades. Homer patted their heads, made sure that they had been given their morning rations, and turned to go out. Hez Rogers met him at the barn door. "Olive's lookin' for you, Cal," he announced. "She says Ozzie's up and rigged and ready to leave; and wants "Who is that?" to see you." "You yourself. You ain't a Scrub- Olive Myrick was the captain's wife. bletown lo'bscouser, like the most of Her home was at West Remiss, nine us. Your old man was a square -nig miles distant across the bay, but ishe cap'n in his day, and your mother had come down to the station 'when `was a Baker, and time was when her her husband- was taken ill, ands' had folks was counted high-toned and been living there for three weeks The worth money, so I've heard tell. You keeper was permitted, under the regu- are ai'ttart. You've been to high lotions, to have his wife with him. In school.. You could get a job up to some stations she acted as cook and. Boston, and halve vessels of your own general housekeeper, receiving a small vunnin' ashore afore yeti died, if you'd allowance for the work. YI. Yr, "Nothin' but watchin', and plenty of that. .I But you ain't told me why' you have got you; dress -up clothes on. Don't expect lho summer hoarders dozen to watch beach drill this time of year, do you?" O. el}i�t3^- tr `'4r 't'rlr We Yee -1 All taut 'end but well b� � an redci • ; to`se , en '49'e''e go ng,t , *sS :e all tlie' rciorg , you come; NOP:. : , And -On rsti ldji have better weather for::`he trip''�`t Myrick ',ignored. the xefereiace ^to ' appearance and the 'Weather. •He to tinned. to thei only other chair in thea room. "Sit down, Cal," he ordered. "I've; on i gote word or so to say to you," 'eau 'it. Homer took the other chair; Cap • Con 'n, taro Myrick drew a long breath. '"Calvin," he went on, "I'm startin' . on my lastcruise, and I know it." Eperimentat Piot;" His., subordinate hastened to pro-, test. "No, no!" he exclaimed. "You' Field inapfection tours e shouldn't talk that way. What you need is rest. You'll be all right in-" "Sshh! We ain't young ones, you and I, and there's no sense in mak erOps m g'enera'l in this aecio�F in' believe. I'm never corrin' back. particularly' god and: xespq I've got my orders and I'm bound in. crops to fertility treatment aS„ + I know it -although I try to let Olive marked'. Especially is tbis,true' o think I don't. But I do, and so does tatoes and wheat In a fertility she, and so do you and all hands. ocofndCuhcetedmistrbyy thine OBru. A. CCoIunepyrt nnI'm through." potatoes have been running litlag"But, Cap'n---" "Sssh! You're wastin' time, and I per acre. ain't got much more to waste, down here. There'll be a new skipper at R O.P. Proves Quality., the Setuckit Station inside of a month With the increasing demand fb, -inside of a week, if my say-so high production laying -stock. `Record counts -and you're the man that'll of Performance for Poultry comes iii:e have the job, if you want it. What to its own. It is only lay such •a syn I want to make ,sure of is that you tern of practical trap -nesting :on the do want it. Do you?" to tion a perirnental plots Ontario by Q A. C.; offic gs in progress during ths'mb:pt'h if Mf' owner's premises over .a consistent' ' Homer hesitated. He did want the period that the real worth of laying appointment, wanted it more than he pullets can I43 determined oil a basis.' . had ever wanted anything in his life which is commercially practicable. It but he liked and admired the man be- is from such flocks as these that the fore him, and his sense of loyalty was supply of high grade male- birds to strong. head breeding pens for the coming "I dop't see any use in talking a- season are largely available. With bout that," he declared stubbornly. the present trend toward efficiency in "You're the keeper here, and there production the male bird plays an„in never was a better one. I've enjoyed creasingly important part. It is the working under you and I'd like noth- male bird more than any other single ing better than to keep on doing it as factor upon which success in' breed- long ani I stay in the service." ing for production depends. 'It`ia "Urn -hum. Well, what I'm asking estimated that, on a basis of seven you is if you're figgerin' on stayin' male birds for every one hundred in the service. Are you?" breeding hens, over 7,000 pedigreed . . "Yes. I guess so. For the pres- cockerels will be required to meet the ent, anyway." demand of the coming season. "You guess so? Ain't you sure?" "Yes, I'm sure. 'But-" Will Select Junior Judges. "Never mind the buts. What do you want to stay for? It ain't the Ontario will be represented by a pay. I've been chasm' wrecks for team in the junior grain -judging twenty -odd year, and all I'm gettin' competitions to be held at the is seventy-five a month. You could World's Grain Exhibition in Regina earn more'n that -a smart young in 1932. This decision was reached . feller like you -at almost anything at the recent annual convention ashore. What are you wastin' your of agricultural representatives of time life-savin' for?" .w Guelph. The teams will be selected It was the same question Seleucus by elimination contests, probably at ' Gammon had asked that very morn- four different points in the province. ing. And Homer had asked himself The five boys . obtaining highest that question many times during the score at each of these contests will past months. And the answer, how- be taken to 0. A. C. and there given ever, unsatisfactory, was always the further training. The three boys same. who score highest out of the twenty "I like the work, Cap'n," he replied. will represent the province. Intense "I realize the pay amounts to noth- interest in the junior grain judging ing. It isn't that. It is just -well competitions as well as in the inter - there is something about it that-- agricultural college class, is evident that---" in every province. The generous "I know. And I know what 'tis too. award's offered are proving particn- It's the same thing that makes a fel- larly attractive apart altogether ler go out cod'fisliin' right along, win- from the opportunity afforded juniors ter and summer, when he could earn and young college students of re= more money sawin' wood at dome." ceiiving excellent training in grain "Yes. But, you see -well, it's a judging work man's job." "So's sawin' wood. But I know what you mean. This life-savin' game is a man's job -for a boy's wag- es. And it's more'nthat- there's the South. gamble in it. You kind of gamble against all outdoors for your life and the other man's. I know -Lord, don't I! It's that, and the salt in your blood and mine, that makes us stick to it. And there's a kind of pride too. Cal, the average man would call me a fool, and I guess I am, but I've took more pride in keepin' this sta- tion the way it ought to be than I would bein' President of the United States." "I understand. And you've kept it well, too." "Yes, I cal'late I can say I have. And that's another thing I wanted to say to you. If you're sure you want to be keeper here; I'm goin' to recom- mend you and my word ought to carry some heft with the superintend- ent. But, if you are skipper of this station, I want you to promise me you'll keep up the Setuckit record Since I've been here we've handled I don't know how many wrecks, some of 'gem we got afloat, again and lots of 'em we didn't, but we never lost one life. I'm kind of proud of that." "You ought to be." "Maybe so; I am, anyhow. And there's another thing I've took pride in. There's never been a call come to this station yet that we ain't an- swered. There never was a vessel in distress off our section-antl some that weren't ours -that we ain't gone I West.. out to her, no matter how' much of a gale of wind was blowin' nor what kind of a sea was runnib'. And we never started and then give up and turned back. There ain't so many sta- tions can say that." "There aren't any others 'round here that I know of." "Um -um -hum. Well, I've took some pride in that too. And I want you to promise me you'll try to keep up that record." "I'll promise you that I'll do my best." LONDON AND WINGHAM t Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londesboro Clinton Brucefield Kippen Hensel] Exeter North. Exeter Hensall Kippen Brucefield Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrarve Wingham C. N. R. East. Goderich Holmesville Clinton Seaforth St. Columban . Dublin Dublin St. Columban Seaforth Clinton Holmesviil'e Goderich "That ain't quite enough, not at Setuckit, 'tain't. You've got to do a little mite core than your best. You'll have to do things that ain't possible, if you understand what I mean. ¶hat is what makes it worth while, this gamblin' game of ours. A feller has to look off to wind''ard and sort of grin and say, 'Well, by thunderwe'll see!' And then go and see -and sea: it through. Do you get my meanie?"'. Calvin nodded. "I Ought to, reee watched you," he said'4..grimly Loo1 here, Cap'n Oz: I don't want to brag,, but I think -I think you can ootlnt' a.m. 6.35 6.50 6.58 7.12 7.18 7.23 p.m. 2.05 2.22 2.33 2.40 3.08 3.26 3.33 3.39 3.53 10.59• 11.12 11.13 11.27 11.58 12.16 12.28 12.83 12.4' 2.40' 2.56 8.05 8,21 327 3.82' 11.29 9.17 11.29 11.40 9.80' 11.55 9.44 12.05 9.58 12.20 10.10 C. P. R. TIME TABLE Feet. Goderich Menset MieGaw Auburn Blyth yt 6.59 $.alb 6.04 x.11 &Be Walton 0.49 MoNa Toronnto ht 10 ' ax Welt. 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